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Kitanoshô-jô was a castle in [[Echizen province]] given by [[Oda Nobunaga]] to [[Shibata Katsuie]] in [[1575]] to help prevent the escape of the [[Asakura clan]] who had until then controlled the province.
Kitanoshô-jô was a castle in [[Echizen province]] given by [[Oda Nobunaga]] to [[Shibata Katsuie]] in [[1575]] to help prevent the escape of the [[Asakura clan]] who had until then controlled the province.
[[Yuki Hideyasu|Yûki Hideyasu]], second son of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], later became lord of Echizen, ruling from Kitanoshô-jô, as part of Ieyasu's strategies to keep the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga province]] in check. He would become the progenitor of the Echizen branch of the [[Matsdaira clan]].
Katsuie and his wife [[Oichi]] committed suicide at Kitanoshô and set the ''tenshu'' on fire on [[1583]]/4/24, after three days of being besieged by the forces of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. This came shortly after the Shibata forces were pressed back to [[Echizen province|Echizen]] in the [[battle of Shizugatake]].<ref>Sansom, George. ''A History of Japan 1334-1615''. Stanford University Press, 1961. p313.</ref>
[[Yuki Hideyasu|Yûki Hideyasu]], second son of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], later became lord of Echizen, ruling from Kitanoshô-jô, as part of Ieyasu's strategies to keep the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga province]] in check. He would become the progenitor of the Echizen branch of the [[Matsudaira clan]].
The castle suffered extensive damage in a fire in 1669, in which the majority of it was lost. Only remnants of the ''honmaru'' survive today.
The castle suffered extensive damage in a fire in 1669, in which the majority of it was lost. Only remnants of the ''honmaru'' survive today.
==References==
==References==
*Terada Shôichi (ed.) ''Meijô wo aruku 2: Kanazawa-jô''. Tokyo: PHP Kenkyûsho, 2002.
*Terada Shôichi (ed.) ''Meijô wo aruku 2: Kanazawa-jô''. Tokyo: PHP Kenkyûsho, 2002.
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